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Training World

Running

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Learn how to become a better runner. Track your running with the Suunto GPS watch and explore highlights about its running features. Analyze your effort, plan your training and follow up your progress in Suunto Movescount, where you can connect with other running enthusiasts and find the best tracks and trails for running and trail running.

Plan and get better

Run everywhere

Running in a new location is always exciting. Pack your sneakers with you when heading for a holiday to New York or a work trip to Shanghai and use heatmaps on Suunto Movescount to discover popular paths and trail running tracks.

Heatmaps show the tracks frequently used by the Suunto Movescount community all over the globe, based on millions of Moves.

Structure your running

By planning your weekly running routines, you can get the most out of your training and make the best use of your time.

Prepare for your next half marathon or ultrarun with Suunto Movescount. Search for other Movescount users who have done the same to see how they train. Find training programs for your specific goal and apply them* to your daily routine, or create your own training program.

In Movescount you can also let your coach plan your runs and monitor your workouts.

Progress

Running performance

To run faster or longer with the same effort, you should improve both of them. Suunto Ambit3’s running performance level is a combined measurement of your physical fitness and your running efficiency using an estimation of your VO2 max.

Running insights

Setting a goal is the best way to develop your fitness and pace, and to motivate you to get out and run even when it is pouring rain.

Perhaps you are aiming for a sub 3-hour marathon or first ultra run? Search for other Suunto Movescount users who have achieved the same goal and check out how hard, how long and how frequently they train to help you plan your own training.

Personal best

When you aim higher, your Suunto GPS watch identifies your new personal best automatically. Achieve your seasonal or annual best record for 10 km, for example, and it is automatically tagged in your Suunto Movescount account, where you can explore and compare your progress over short or long-term periods.

See where you stand in your age group and compare your achievements to other Movescount users.

On the run

Running power

Get immediate information on your effort and pace your run by measuring your power when running. Evaluate how tough a certain running course is by using the Stryd power meter, compatible with all Suunto Ambit3 and Spartan watches. Measuring running power is an efficient way to run at a certain level, as it is more accurate than following heart rate or speed.

Fused speed

All Suunto Ambit3 and Spartan family GPS watches use FusedSpeed™, a patented technology for accurate, responsive speed readings. The speed indication is a unique combination of GPS and accelerator readings.

The GPS signal is adaptively filtered based on wrist acceleration, giving more accurate readings at steady running speeds and quicker responses to changes in speed. For example if you run through a tunnel or in a dense forest where GPS signal is temporarily unavailable, the accelerometer fills in the gaps.